R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing" Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > x <- c(16.3,16.37,16.38,16.37,16.42,16.43,16.44,16.53,16.55,16.56,16.6,16.61,16.62,16.64,16.61,16.74,16.87,16.89,16.89,16.99,17.06,17.1,17.11,17.17,17.17,17.21,17.37,17.43,17.44,17.46,17.42,17.47,17.45,17.44,17.46,17.47,17.47,17.56,17.61,17.61,17.6,17.57,17.59,17.59,17.68,17.73,17.75,17.75,17.75,17.85,18.06,18.05,18.16,18.2,18.21,18.33,18.36,18.37,18.4,18.47,18.49,18.5,18.53,18.56,18.6,18.61,18.62,18.61,18.65,18.77,18.78,18.78,18.8,18.85,18.85,18.98,19.06,19.08,19.19,19.21,19.29,19.3,19.36,19.36) > #'GNU S' R Code compiled by R2WASP v. 1.2.291 () > #Author: root > #To cite this work: Wessa P., (2012), Mean versus Median (v1.0.2) in Free Statistics Software (v$_version), Office for Research Development and Education, URL http://www.wessa.net/rwasp_meanversusmedian.wasp/ > #Source of accompanying publication: Office for Research, Development, and Education > # > library(Hmisc) Loading required package: survival Loading required package: splines Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview') to see overall documentation. NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when subsetting. To get the old behavior of Hmisc type dropUnusedLevels(). Attaching package: 'Hmisc' The following object is masked from 'package:survival': untangle.specials The following objects are masked from 'package:base': format.pval, round.POSIXt, trunc.POSIXt, units > m <- mean(x) > e <- median(x) > postscript(file="/var/fisher/rcomp/tmp/18f4g1381342553.ps",horizontal=F,onefile=F,pagecentre=F,paper="special",width=8.3333333333333,height=5.5555555555556) > op <- par(mfrow=c(2,1)) > mydensity1 <- density(x,kernel='gaussian',na.rm=TRUE) > plot(mydensity1,main='Density Plot - Gaussian Kernel',xlab='Median (0 -> full line) | Mean (0 -> dashed line)',ylab='density') > abline(v=e,lty=1) > abline(v=m,lty=5) > grid() > myseq <- seq(0.01, 0.99, 0.01) > hd <- hdquantile(x, probs = myseq, se = TRUE, na.rm = FALSE, names = TRUE, weights=FALSE) > plot(myseq,hd,col=2,main='Harrell-Davis Quantiles',xlab='quantiles',ylab='Median (0 -> full) | Mean (0 -> dashed)') > abline(h=m,lty=5) > abline(h=e,lty=1) > grid() > par(op) > dev.off() null device 1 > > #Note: the /var/fisher/rcomp/createtable file can be downloaded at http://www.wessa.net/cretab > load(file="/var/fisher/rcomp/createtable") > > a<-table.start() > a<-table.row.start(a) > a<-table.element(a,'Median versus Mean',2,TRUE) > a<-table.row.end(a) > a<-table.row.start(a) > a<-table.element(a,'mean',header=TRUE) > a<-table.element(a,mean(x)) > a<-table.row.end(a) > a<-table.row.start(a) > a<-table.element(a,'median',header=TRUE) > a<-table.element(a,median(x)) > a<-table.row.end(a) > a<-table.end(a) > table.save(a,file="/var/fisher/rcomp/tmp/2p20a1381342553.tab") > > try(system("convert tmp/18f4g1381342553.ps tmp/18f4g1381342553.png",intern=TRUE)) character(0) > > > proc.time() user system elapsed 1.124 0.123 1.229